The Job: Our customer had fallen in love with a beautiful house and its gorgeous surroundings, located in a scenic national park. He called upon us to assist with some restoration work, and was passionate that this should be as honest as possible to the original design.
After replacing the house’s ninety sash-and-case windows, we were asked us to restore the porch to its former glory. An unattractive extension had been added to the original, serving perhaps as a cloakroom, the building having served previously as a respite home for a local church and a B&B.
In the picture above, the remains of the extension can be seen. This shows the stonework and window which had replaced the original entrance and steps, and a sash-and-case window which had looked out on the interior of the extension.
Our Approach: The job was quite a jigsaw puzzle! Luckily, the customer possessed a black-and-white photograph of the house pre-extension sufficient for us to ascertain the design of the original porch. He had also found the porch’s original columns, although these were in a poor state (see picture below).
The porch’s original stonework had been incorporated into the extension, so we were also able to reclaim this from the downtakings.
From these parts, and referring to the old photograph, our team then spent a week reconstructing the glorious original porch, some pictures of which appear above and below. Follow Keysquare on Instagram to get pictures of our artisan teams' finest works!
What the customer said:
I was passionate that the porch should be a completely faithful restoration, and with Key Square’s skills, this has been wholly realised!
